Ashley Wood

Ashley Wood is one of my favorite illustrators. If you like robots, oil painting and good illustrations, you'll enjoy his artwork. No need to say but also lovelies pin-ups. He is also well known for "Popbot".

Dance and computing

A tendancy in dance world today is to find a new way for non human body mouvement and the relation between dancer and technology. The body become a part of the captation system or a part of the dialogue between machine and dance space. The point is " Can the spectator understand a non human interpretation of the sound or silence ? " Do we have connection with a non soul performer ( the machine ) ? Is the dancer the emotional part of just becoming an interface. New technologies in dance performing is very interesting if you consider pain, tiredness as a human vocabulary in performing what is out of computer system.

Memories

Do you remember the first times you saw robots or played with. Sometimes only a title can open a huge space in imagination and becoming a reference for even work direction in your life. Magnus was one of it, the name of the heroe was so impressive for little boys. Before movies like silent running, blade runner, forbidden planet, a simple cover of a comic's could determinate your futur tastes and make a generation addict to "Bender".

beyond human being

One more time the question is " Robot needs human or not ?"
If the robot is developping his own sensations with a rat brain, what would be the next step. May be the human brain is not appropriate, "irrational".

vinyl art toys

A nice and cool exhition of friend. For peoples who are fan of vinyle toys ;-)
Can be seen at Artoys.

Sega Toys robot Ema

If you believe in romance between a human and a machine, this robot will be your first date with a female shape , a ginoïde. If you turn your mind why would it be with a fake girlfriend. More interesting would be to discover a new form of love, a new way of emotional relation. This robot also have a baby size, must be twisted to fall in love, no ?

Cube festival

This week end I visited Le Cube Festival, it's nice to see people developing an exhibition program dedicate to digital art. Thank's to Carine Lemalet who spent time to show me the artists works. I liked smoke tree by John Gerrard.

LittleDog

"I want one !"

Jellyfish robot

Always funny to see one of your creation becoming real. When I created Callme, people were wondering if it could be possible. The answer is "YES". Zoomorphic robot form seems to be a main research for a very near future.

next exhibition

" LES IMAGES d’HENRY CHAPIER"
du 20 juin au 24 août au Théâtre de la Photographie et de l’Image

Le Théâtre de la Photographie et de l’Image et la Cinémathèque de Nice organisent pour la première fois un projet commun autour d’Henry Chapier, éditorialiste culturel, journaliste, critique de cinéma, auteur et réalisateur, qui, depuis les années 60, n’a cessé de défendre, dans la presse comme à la télévision, le cinéma et la photographie.

27, Boulevard Dubouchage, 06000 NICE
Tél : (+33) (0)4 97 13 42 20

Ouverture : de 10h à 18h.
Fermé le lundi et certains jours fériés.

shooting for my friend JP SET

Sometimes shooting can be funny. I'll show the result later but I wanted to share it as a preview.My friend JP SET is preparing his one-man show for summer in paris. We made funny image but I like the atmosphere of this one.

Molecular Gastronomy

This week was my first experience with Thierry Marx at the le laboratoire. A little disappointed, I expected a real experience, not a bento with agar_agar.
If you're interested like me in lab cooking experiences, Heston Blumenthal is my favorite. The french physico-chimist hervé This also nice to know.

The oldest japanese robot revived

Built in 1928 by biologist Makoto Nishimura, Gakutensoku was first exhibited in Kyoto as part of the formal celebration of the Showa Emperor’s ascension to the throne. The robot traveled to a number of expos and wowed onlookers with its mad calligraphy skills before going missing in Germany. After a long disappearance, Gakutensoku was located and later repatriated to Osaka.

A funny robot

I can't resist to show you this homemade robot.

A forest of pc

The more technological environement is growing, the more human nature is looking for a nature, a sensible world to be in touch with roots. Fujitsu and Monacca developped a wooden pc, this tendence might become bigger like the zoomorph as well. It's just a question of feeling, a new flower power techno.

From out of space

Sometimes it's good and funny to see a vision of the post-future. I hope you'll enjoy it. Our vision of the future could also look like a joke for the next generation.
Have fun !

Human Behavior

Recently, entering a community I had to answer questions file as always. The surprise was the last question:
«R u human ?»
This question was against the robots. The real question is « The war began ?»

Big dog

This robot is maybe one of the most scary creature. I love it because of the shape and the noise completely out of soft design. It's like a nightmare. The interesting fact is the creators did not try to make it similar as a dog, no head, no tail, no stupid nickname.
If you consider robot with out human point of view may be this one is vision of a possible future.

Astro boy

In 1951, Osamu Tezuka created Astro Boy. Few years ago I met Honda's chief engineer of robotic departement who explained me why they created Asimo at first. Mr Honda wanted a friendly robot like Astro Boy in the 70's. In a room there was the manga collection of Astro boy ( mighty Atom ). The engineers had to read it and copy the concept, all were car engineers and became robotic engineers because of the project. I believe many people like me became robot's fans because of it.
The funny thing is when I asked the chief engineer if Asimo was an homage to Asimov, he asked me "Who is Asimov ?"

Coming soon : Astro boy, CG-animated movie, 2009

Robot of my dreams

Of course, this reminds us Philip K. Dick
Using recorded brainwave activity and eye movements during REM sleep to determine robot behaviors and head positions, "Sleep Waking" acts as a way to "play-back" dreams. Through this piece we hope to investigate one of the possible human-robot relationships.
Fernando Orellana